SOLD: This was my workshop level for many years until I acquired a Davis level. It’s in fine shape and accurate. There is about 80 percent of the plating left. Three good vials in the level are all functioning.
One corner has a very old ding, which as been filed so there are no burrs. The cast iron has about 80 percent of the original japanning.
No apologies on the function. It’s not a sexy looker, but it is bulletproof Starrett.
Price $40 plus $6 domestic shipping.
About Tool Sales on My Blog
Please read this if you are interested in buying a tool. Why am I selling these tools? Read this entry before you freak out. There is no “master list” of tools that I can send you. I am working through several piles of tools and will list them when I can.
Want to see only the tools that haven’t sold? Easy. I’ve created a category for that on this blog. Click here and bookmark that page. When you visit that link, you’ll see only the tools that haven’t been sold.
While you can ask me all the questions you like about the tool, the first person to send me an e-mail that says: “I’ll take it,” gets the tool. Simple. To buy a tool, please send me an e-mail at christopher.schwarz@fuse.net.
Payment: I can accept PayPal or a personal check. As soon as the funds arrive, I’ll ship the tool using USPS. If you want insurance, let me know. I’m afraid I can only ship tools in the United States. Shipping internationally is very time-consuming and paperwork-heavy. My apologies in advance on this point.
If you don’t like the tool when you get it, I’ll be happy to refund your money if you return the tool. But postage is on you.
SOLD: I bought this little “Total Square” to review it in the magazine. Then a competing magazine reviewed the square and I never got around to reviewing it in our pages. That’s too bad because this is a great little square, with many common workshop measurements “built in” to the structure of the square.
Well made in the United States. Square. The blade is 3-1/4″ long. One toolbox ding on the infill.
Price: $35 plus $5 domestic shipping
About Tool Sales on My Blog
Please read this if you are interested in buying a tool. Why am I selling these tools? Read this entry before you freak out. There is no “master list” of tools that I can send you. I am working through several piles of tools and will list them when I can.
Want to see only the tools that haven’t sold? Easy. I’ve created a category for that on this blog. Click here and bookmark that page. When you visit that link, you’ll see only the tools that haven’t been sold.
While you can ask me all the questions you like about the tool, the first person to send me an e-mail that says: “I’ll take it,” gets the tool. Simple. To buy a tool, please send me an e-mail at christopher.schwarz@fuse.net.
Payment: I can accept PayPal or a personal check. As soon as the funds arrive, I’ll ship the tool using USPS. If you want insurance, let me know. I’m afraid I can only ship tools in the United States. Shipping internationally is very time-consuming and paperwork-heavy. My apologies in advance on this point.
If you don’t like the tool when you get it, I’ll be happy to refund your money if you return the tool. But postage is on you.
SOLD: This is a funny story (to me). I bought these bench bolts in 2004 to build a workbench. But then I was infected by the Roubo workbench virus and built that bench so it wouldn’t knock down. So I didn’t need these bolts. They have sat in the bottom of a drawer until I found them today.
If you have a workbench that you want to be able to knock down, this will help me complete the circle.
Factory sealed.
Price: $22 plus $5 domestic shipping.
About Tool Sales on My Blog
Please read this if you are interested in buying a tool. Why am I selling these tools? Read this entry before you freak out. There is no “master list” of tools that I can send you. I am working through several piles of tools and will list them when I can.
Want to see only the tools that haven’t sold? Easy. I’ve created a category for that on this blog. Click here and bookmark that page. When you visit that link, you’ll see only the tools that haven’t been sold.
While you can ask me all the questions you like about the tool, the first person to send me an e-mail that says: “I’ll take it,” gets the tool. Simple. To buy a tool, please send me an e-mail at christopher.schwarz@fuse.net.
Payment: I can accept PayPal or a personal check. As soon as the funds arrive, I’ll ship the tool using USPS. If you want insurance, let me know. I’m afraid I can only ship tools in the United States. Shipping internationally is very time-consuming and paperwork-heavy. My apologies in advance on this point.
If you don’t like the tool when you get it, I’ll be happy to refund your money if you return the tool. But postage is on you.
As some of you might know, I’ve been selling off a lot of tools lately here on my blog. I’ve been getting a lot of e-mails from alarmed readers who are wondering if I’m leaving the craft, or the world of handwork.
Far from it. Since February I’ve been working on my next book project, which is going to be very expensive for me to produce to do it the way I want. Plus, I have way more tools than one person needs.
The following list of tools are things that are more expensive than what I’ve listed before. If you want to gripe about it, please do it over at one of the forums, not on my blog. While some of these tools are difficult to sell from a sentimental standpoint, I have concluded that it’s the right thing to do.
About Tool Sales on My Blog
Please read this if you are interested in buying a tool. Why am I selling these tools? Read this entry
before you freak out. There is no “master list” of tools that I can
send you. I am working through several piles of tools and will list them
when I can.
Want to see only the tools that haven’t sold? Easy. I’ve created a category for that on this blog. Click here and bookmark that page. When you visit that link, you’ll see only the tools that haven’t been sold.
While you can ask me all the questions you like about the tool, the first person to send me an e-mail that says: “I’ll take it,” gets the tool. Simple. To buy a tool, please send me an e-mail at christopher.schwarz@fuse.net.
Payment: I can accept PayPal or a personal check. As soon as the funds arrive, I’ll ship the tool using USPS. If you want insurance, let me know. I’m afraid I can only ship tools in the United States. Shipping internationally is very time-consuming and paperwork-heavy. My apologies in advance on this point.
If you don’t like the tool when you get it, I’ll be happy to refund your money if you return the tool. But postage is on you.
Plated 8″ English Brace
This is a fully functional beech brace with brass plating and a mahogany pad. The push-button chuck is fully functional (though you will probably have to file modern augers a bit to fit). The pad is fairly tight considering its age. The only mark on the brace is on the beech frame where it has an owner’s stamp: W. Tank.
The only apology for this tool is that one of the screws on the plating is missing and the plating has been pushed up a bit at that end. This is cosmetic.
I purchased this brace several years ago at an Amish auction to use it for some photography in “The Art of Joinery.”
Price: $235 plus $8 domestic shipping.
SOLD: Lie-Nielsen No. 9 Plane with Cherry Handle and Hot Dog
I purchased this plane for shooting before the company had switched to a hot dog handle. So it includes the original cherry knob. After several people inquired about adding a hot dog, Thomas Lie-Nielsen started making them. This hot dog is one of the first they made. He handed it over to me at a bar in Saratoga Springs at the Northeast Woodworkers Showcase.
No apologies for this plane. It’s perfect. Sharp. Ready to work.
Price: SOLD
SOLD: Wayne Anderson Block Plane
I am especially loathe to give up this small block plane. But I have so many block planes that it’s nuts. This has a 7/8″-wide iron. The body is 4″ long and the thing has impressive mass thanks to its infilled brass lever cap and toe.
This plane has seen a lot of use and has a toolbox ding on the toe infill. Other than that, it is a remarkable example from Anderson, one of my favorite makers.
VII. He beareth Argent, an Axe, (or Carpenters Axe) in Bend Azure, the Hawme, Or; between a Ginnet and an Auger of the same: These are three Tools used principally by the Carpenters of which in their order.
First, the Axe used by the Carpenter, is the same in form to the Hatchet, only larger in the head, and longer in the Hawme, because it is to be used with both hands, and is for Hewing and Squaring of great Timber, to make it fit for use.
The Ginnet is used to cut and take off Irregularities in all sorts of work lying under hand or flat, which the Axe or Hatchet cannot be handled to touch: Some term it an Addice or Adz.
Of these Ginnets or Addices, there is another sort also used by Carpenters, which hath its Blade made thin and somewhat arching (as this doth) but the other end is faced or headed like to a great Hammer. These Instruments as they have their edge athwart the Handle, so their Grinding to a Basil is on the in-side to the out-edge, which is the cause, when it is Blunt, it cannot be ground, unless the Helve be taken out of the Eye of the Addice.
B. 3 such with a Fess between A. the Hafts O. is born by Ginnett.
G. 3 such O. born by Froburgh.
The Auger, or Augre, or Oger, as some call it, hath in it, the Handle, which is of Wood, and the Shank, and the Bit which Boreth; its office is to make great and round holes suitable to the rotundity of the Bit; and when it is used, the Stuff worked upon, is commonly laid below under you, or set equal to your Breast; that ones strength may be the easier used for the twisting the Bit about by the force of both hands.
There are several sorts of them from a quarter of an Inch Bore, to 4, 5, or 6 inches in the Diameter, but big or little, their form and make is all one and the same.
A. an Oger B. Handle O. born by Neber.
A. 3 such S. Handles O. born by Oger or Auger.
— From Randle Holme’s “The Academy of Armory, or, A Storehouse of Armory and Blazon” Book III, Chapter IX.Why am I reading this?
